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Graduate Students Win Campus Awards

Congratulations to ABD students Michael Albert, Scott Englund, and Amanda Zeddy for winning the 2013 Graduate Dean's Advancement fellowships that will provide full coverage of tuition/fees for a chosen quarter plus a generous stipend to help with research needs or living expenses.

We also would like to extend our congratulations to PhD students Lisa Argyle and Scott Englund for winning the 2013 ISBER Graduate Research Awards for Social Science Surveys (GRASS).

Communication, Consumption, and Civil Society: Media and Politics at the Checkout Line

Event Start: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event End: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event Location: HSSB 6020

Speaker:
Prof. Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Political Theory Workshop

Event Start: October 25, 2013 08:30 PM

Event End: October 25, 2013 08:30 PM

Event Location: Ellison 2824

Speaker:
Amanda Zeddy, PhD Candiate, UCSB Department of Political Science

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speakers:
Travis Seifman (History) - Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions

Magarita Safronova (Political Science) - Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan

Sponsored by the IHC's Identity Studies RFG.

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Cohen Gives Keynote in Hong Kong

Professor Jerry Cohen gave the keynote address at a conference held in Hong Kong December 10-11. The conference was organized by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Asian Development Bank. His address was entitled "The BRICS and Asia, Currency Internationalization, and International Monetary Reform."

Ph.D. Alumnus Named 2013 California Professor of the Year

Professor Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar, who received his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCSB in 1984, was named the 2013 California Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). 

Dr. Eskandari is the Chair of the Political Science and Economics Department and the Director of Middle East Studies at Santa Barbara City College, where he has worked since 1992.

International Relations Speaker Series "Sending a Signal of Prowess? Nuclear Tests and Technological Spillover"

Event Start: May 10, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: May 10, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Christopher Sprecher, Visiting Professor, UCSB

Talk: Exceptionalism Revisited: American Political Development in Comparative Perspective. President, Congress, and Parties

Event Start: January 10, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 10, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Axel Hadenius, Visiting Researcher in the Department of Political Science at UCSB